What we covered here:
• Federal worker deadline paused: A judge paused today’s deadline for federal employees to accept the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer until he receives more briefings on whether it should be blocked. At least 65,000 federal workers have now opted to resign, a White House official told CNN.
• Senate approves OMB chief: The Senate, voting along party lines, confirmed Russ Vought as the director of the Office of Management and Budget after Democrats held the floor overnight in a marathon of speeches to protest his role in Project 2025 and his insistence that the 2020 election was “rigged.”
• USAID lawsuit: A pair of labor groups representing USAID employees sued Trump over his efforts to dismantle the decades-old humanitarian agency. Multiple sources told CNN that fewer than 300 agency employees are expected to be retained while countless others are put on indefinite leave or fired.
